The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment--the definitive police state--and the global technology giants that made it possible

Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang's Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a government that nonetheless treats them with suspicion and contempt. Welcome to the Perfect Police State.

Using the haunting story of one young woman's attempt to escape the vicious technological dystopia, his own reporting from Xinjiang, and extensive firsthand testimony from exiles, Geoffrey Cain reveals the extraordinary intrusiveness and power of the tech surveillance giants and the chilling implications for all our futures.

Author: Geoffrey Cain
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 06/29/2021
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781541757035
ISBN10: 1541757033
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Privacy & Surveillance (see also Social Science | Privacy &
- History | Asia | China
- Political Science | Human Rights

About the Author
Geoffrey Cain is an investigative journalist and technology writer who reported from Asia and the Middle East for twelve years. He's contributed to the Economist, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other magazines and newspapers. His first book, Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech, was longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. A Fulbright scholar, he studied at London's School of Oriental and African Studies and the George Washington University, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Istanbul, Turkey.